Lit in Translation

Summer Light, and Then Comes the Night

Sumarljós, og svo kemur nóttin

Jón Kalman Stefánsson (born 1963)

Translated by Philip Roughton

English editions

In English

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A village of a few hundred people in western Iceland tells its own stories, not of every house, but of the desire that binds days and nights together: a happy truck driver, Elísabet and her dark velvet dress, the man who arrived on the bus, tall Þuríður full of secret longing, a man who could not count the fish, a woman with shy breath, a lonely farmer and a four-thousand-year-old mummy. One villager after another strays through the treacherous lanes of the heart.

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About the book

Form
Short stories
Length
214 pages in the original
Genres
Love (assigned by AI)
Set in
Iceland
First published
2005 by Bjartur
Author's age
42 when first published
ISBN

9789979788171 (original)

9780857059758 (MacLehose Press, United Kingdom)

9780857059765 (MacLehose Press, United Kingdom)

9780063136472 (HarperVia, United States)

9780063136489 (HarperVia, United States)

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